With that said, I would like to call out reason for leaving and staying in a position or company.

LEAVING

• Company – Reading the writing on the wall should be one of the tools any designer has in their ‘bag’.  Having ridden the tsunami created by the dot com pop, I have left companies where the people where imploding.  Having been part of more companies / business units that where is start up mode, I have seen these groups tear themselves apart via infighting.
• Co-workers – Being in a teams has its advantages aand disadvantage

STAYING

• Great location – currently, the location where I work is absolutely beautiful
• Interesting work – being an industrial designer, my interest tend to wain as the time goes on if the work does not change.
• No other job to be had – one of the best reasons to be in valley…options

Moreover, I have a true desire for all of these applications to work seemlessly together. However, being a user experience professional, I understand seams are facts of life – whether ‘code’ or ‘market share’ based.

On Facebook, the main interaction, to communicate, is somewhat circular and muddled; i.e.

• the inbox versus status update;
• replying to a comment inline or from someone’s wall

all seems all very confusing.

It may be confusing, however, it is still quite pleasant to run into a new user experience challenge. It makes me realize how challenging it maybe for users in the enterprise application and tools space to have multiple ways of to perform the same task.

Granted, enterprise applications are for professionals motivated to learn these application versus social communication applications. However, on some level I would argue those that users of the social communication applications are equalily as motivated to learn Facebook’s somewhat unnatural mental models.

More later…